All Flowers articles – Page 50
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ArticleA blooming good year
Fresh flower specialist Flowerfête has enjoyed a hectic but rewarding 12 months since scooping FPC’s Floral Business of the Year award at Re:fresh 2006. Laura Gould met managing director Colin Hills to find out more about recent developments.
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ArticleCentre of excellence
The Perishables Handling Centre at Heathrow is the largest chilled airfreight distribution centre in the UK. With a capacity of more than 140,000 tonnes of perishable cargo each year and the ability to process eight million retail trays a year, it has had a significant effect on many of the UK’s large produce import businesses and their customers. Operated by Salvesen Logistics, the sponsor of this year’s Re:fresh Importer of the Year award, the centre has entered another phase of development, and plays a key role in the future expansion plans of Salvesen’s aviation logistics division, the company’s general managers Giles Brown and Matt George tell Tommy Leighton.
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ArticleSainsbury's expands fresh flowers range
Sainsbury’s has introduced a selection of specially designed fresh flowers for the summer season.
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ArticleEthiopian flower market taking off
Ethiopia’s Horticultural Producers and Exporters Association believes that the country could become one of Africa’s leading flower exporters within the next five years.
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ArticleMean machines
The drive for efficiency in growing means that manufacturers need to keep developing a constant stream of new products. In the first of three features this week, Commercial Grower rounds up some of the latest developments in outdoor farm machinery.
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ArticleSize matters to Punter
Redbridge Produce & Flowers was named Capespan Re:fresh 2006 Wholesaler of the Year. Following an action-packed 12 months in which its parent company, Redbridge Holdings, joined forces with Fyffes spin-off Total Produce to form a near £400 million fresh produce giant, the wholesale side of the business - albeit in a new form - has maintained its model status. Anna Sbuttoni met Total Produce chairman Denis Punter.
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Fargro announces new sales team
Fargro has announced the appointment of two new sales staff.
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RHS goes intergalactic
Space is the place for this year’s RHS flower shows, if early notice of exhibits is anything to go by.
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ArticleChelsea Flower Show to turn space age
Themes of outer space, science fiction, astrology and the cosmos are set to take the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to another dimension this year.
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Young Plants unveils new primrose range
Young Plants Ltd is unveiling a major new range of mid-season primroses, promising greater uniformity and quality.
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ArticleSanders announces carbon-neutrality plan
A UK garden centre has unveiled an ambitious plan to significantly reduce its carbon footprint and help the environment.
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Welsh food miles controversy
The idea of developing horticulture in Britain to displace imports flown in from tropical countries has been ridiculed by the Welsh government’s environment and farming minister.
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HTA responds to climate change proposals
The HTA is lobbying for a two-pronged approach to tackling climate change.
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ArticleEnd of an era?
When FPJ last visited Dublin’s Corporation Market in 2001, its future was hanging in the balance due to council plans to redevelop the site. Six years on, another trip to the wholesale centre revealed traders remain in a similarly perplexing state of limbo. Laura Gould investigates.
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ArticleMother's Day send off for Agrexco flower manager
Mother's Day, the most important date in the florist's diary, has an altogether different signifcance this year for Agrexo UK flower manager Yehuda Reichman.
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Article3-D flower display at CRS
The flower category has played a growing part in the convenience sector, according to exhibitors at the Convenience Retailing Show 2007, which kicked off at the Birmingham NEC on Tuesday.
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Industry anger over SOLA fees
Massive future costs to the HDC for off-label use can be expected when ornamentals have to be registered in the future.
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Defra aims to repel invaders
Defra is launching a consultation to help tackle invasive non-native species.
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ArticleFairtrade warnings sounded
Fairtrade Fortnight’s high-profile launch this week has brought ethical trading to the forefront of public awareness, but also ushered in warnings from the trade.
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Double H set for expansion
After a period of consolidation over the last two years, Double H, one of the UK’s largest pot plant and ornamentals growers, is again set on an expansion course.